Horse-collar.



PATENTED APR. 10, 1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 10, 1906.

Application filed February 7, 1905. Serial No. 244,559.

To all whom it 771/017] concern:

Be it known that I, J OHANNES AHRENDT, a subject of the German Emperor,and a resident of Hamburg, Germany, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in an Improved Horse-Collar, of which the following is aspecification.

The present invention relates to a horse collar which is adjustable inlength and breadth and in the case of which the collarhoops, ofMannesmann tubes, serving for the adjustment and stilli'ening of thecollar, lie under the leather casing of the collar in the padding. Atthe lower parts of the collarhoop tubes an adjusting device, alsosituated under the collar-leather in the padding, is arranged by meansof joints, said adjusting device being capable of enabling the width ofthe collar to be adjusted as desired. A collar-hoop laid in the paddingis illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is anelevation, the contour of the collar being represented by dotted lines.Fig. 2 is a section through the side part of a collar on the line A B,Fig. 1, seen from above. Fig. 3 is a plan of the adjusting device of thecollar.

The two side parts band c of the collar hoops are adjustable in lengthby means of a bow a with two joints i and 0 and two bolts Z and m, whichare displaceable in the tubes 1) and c in order that it may be possibleto increase or decrease, as-desired, the height of the collar. Thereforethe padding f and leather g, forming part of the collar, are divided atthe lines C D and C D. The breadth of the collar is increased ordecreased by drawing together or drawing apart the two parts 65 and t,which fit in each other, and which are likewise connected by joints 7Land 00, respectively, with the side tubes 1) and c. On that account thepadding f and leather 9 are divided at line E F in two parts, which fitin each other. Only by using the four joints or hinges i, 0, h, and w isit possible to adjust the collar, as otherwise stresses arise or theseparate parts would be strained. All the hame-tubes b, 0, (Z, t, and alie embedded in the collar-padding f, Fig. 2, which is inclosed by thecollar-leather 9, Fig. 2. The adjustment of the lower parts (Z and t iseffected by a pin 1" being placed through one of the holes 1) afteradjusting the part d in the part t, which surrounds it. The adjustmentof the upper part of the collar is effected by displacing the bolts 1and m in the tubes 1) and c, which are provided with any suitablefastening device.

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. In a horse-collar the combination of a sectional pad, sectional hamesembedded therein, the pad-sections and hame-sections being mutuallyadjustable upon each other.

2. In a horse-collar the combination of a pad made in sectionslongitudinally and laterally, adjustable sectional hames embeddedtlgelarein which are correspondingly adjusta e.

8. In a horse-collar a sectional pad, sectional hames embedded therein,the parts being made telescoping and adjustable.

JOHANNES AHRENDT.

Witnesses:

I. A. News,

E. MAHLKE.

